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Two excellent groups, both agreeing on high flexibility and incoporating the letter K into everything they make. What more needs to be said?

I think KDE and Korg should partner up and make some awesome music-based widgets and audio production software. I don't think KDE has anything music related thus far.

Please explain what korg is AND provide a link where people can get more information on it and explain how it would benefit either group.

Korg is one of the largest musical synthesizer companies, and have a very similar attraction to the word "K" in their products (such as Kaoss, microKorg, microKONTROL, etc), thus making it more of a joke post. But on a more serious note, *nix in general tends to lack any music production software (that's any good), so here's their website:

http://korg.com/

If this post is taken seriously, I suppose it would be nice to have a piece of software that lets you freely compose music, but then offers (in a Korg/KDE fashion) virtual synthesizers (and maybe real too), probably in the VST format, that you can buy and then use in your projects. That way, *nix has some decent audio software, and Korg can make a little bit of cash on selling their sounds through something like Get Hot New Stuff for the program.

Not approved.

Korg is a company. What you're suggesting is to get some company to partner with KDE and make stuff. That's not exactly the way things work. Either Korg sees something that makes it worth to develop for KDE or it doesn't happen. I don't see the point of people voting for something which relies on a complete third party's consent.

Plus KDE already already has music notation software: rosegarden. Lilypond is cross desktop and works with rosegarden (the other way around, actually). Music mixing software I don't quite know about, but that's for another idea for a fresh new program if you want to start an idea for it.

Actually, I would like to comment on that. Rosegarden is a score editor, not a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation). Linux's closest thing to that would be LMMS, which is fairly broken in terms of being able to do anything.

And in terms of Korg, it would not require any consent from them at all. Make a music studio, and if they want to add in VST plugins, they can add them. Otherwise, any other person could easily make their own VST plugins, including other companies. The irony was simply in the fact that both Korg and KDE put K's in their name; beyond that, it was largely irrelevant.

So the idea is that KDE should create its own digital audio workstation which is compatible with Korg VST plugins?

VST plugins are standard across all DAWs, but getting the software up to par for a commercial vendor (such as Korg) to help advocate for it would be a nice publicity stunt for KDE in return. Granted, there would have to be some solid software before any company, not just Korg, would become involved, but if it was a viable alternative to commercial DAWs, I don't see a little bit of "sponsorship" from a company that uses the letter K as extensively as us as being particularly bad.

And I suppose I would like to edit this quickly after reading over it, this would not be a "locked in" partnership, just make a good DAW, get Korg's (or another company) support for it, and have even better development. There's money to be made on their side for selling VSTs, and usability aspects to be made on our side for having more professional programs and commercial support for open source software. Just like how Google has the open sourced Android, but commercial applications.

OK, then I think a valid idea would be one suggesting a new app which is a DAW. Create a new idea describing it in detail with the features you think it should have, but I think talking about Korg is just going to confuse people. Keep in mind not a lot of people have used a DAW before.

Yes, I completely agree My original intent was a joke about Korg and KDE anyways, which probably shouldn't have been in brainstorm anyways, but it ended up becoming a better idea than I thought.

By the way, if you ever want to demo a DAW, FL Studio is very good and is well-supported in Wine as well. It's fun to make a few beats every so often.